water water every where....

.....nor any drop to drink.

Sorry. but Samuel C. is still on my mind as we survey the results of Vancouver's recent 'Pineapple Express". After suffering through days of heavy rains and winds, we have found that our luck of always enjoying a dry basement no matter what the weather has ended.

The new storage space under the front porch is waterlogged, and - worse - the north-west corner of our new workspace is damp.

There is damage to our new oak floors

and the gyproc for about 6-8 feet in both directions is soft.

What this means is digging to investigate the drain tile situtaion. We had all thought our preliminary investigation in the summer was conclusive, that the original clay tile had been replaced with PVC at some point and all was well. However, now we need to know if the entire length is PVC or just the downpipes, how deep it goes, where the water table is and what is causing the water to flow inside instead of down and out. It may mean having to replace the drain tile around the entire house, an unexpected expense and horrible timing, as it's mid-November with winter on the way.

The only good news part of this is it is caught before the job was completed when we'd be on our own. As the saying goes, it never rains but it pours. Oh, I shouldn't have said that!